The fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one
big thing. In his most comprehensive work, Ronald Dworkin argues that
value in all its forms is one big thing: that what truth is, life
means, morality requires, and justice demands are different aspects of
the same large question. He develops original theories on a great
variety of issues very rarely considered in the same book: moral
skepticism, literary, artistic, and historical interpretation, free
will, ancient moral theory, being good and living well, liberty,
equality, and law among many other topics. What we think about any one
of these must stand up, eventually, to any argument we find compelling
about the rest. Skepticism in all its forms—philosophical, cynical,
or post-modern—threatens that unity. The Galilean revolution once
made the theological world of value safe for science. But the new
republic gradually became a new empire: the modern philosophers
inflated the methods of physics into a totalitarian theory of
everything. They invaded and occupied all the honorifics—reality,
truth, fact, ground, meaning, knowledge, and being—and dictated the
terms on which other bodies of thought might aspire to them, and
skepticism has been the inevitable result. We need a new revolution.
We must make the world of science safe for value.
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ISBN
9780674059337
Publisert
2021
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Belknap Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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